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Shakespeare's Sonnets - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)...
LibriVox's Most Wanted poetry collection - Various
LibriVox's Most Wanted poetry collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Have you ever suggested a book for recording by LibriVox only to be told by some good-for-nothing admin that it can't be done because it's not in the Public Domain in the US? Then this project is dedicated to you. It consists of ten early Public...
Drake - Alfred Noyes
Drake - Alfred Noyes
- Author: Alfred Noyes
- Genre: Poetry / Epics / Free Verse
Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. (Summary by Cynthia Moyer)...
Winter: A Dirge - Robert BURNS
Winter: A Dirge - Robert BURNS
- Author: Robert BURNS
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 13th, 2008....
Short Poetry Collection 163 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 163 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." -...
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan - Teika no FUJIWARA
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan - Teika no FUJIWARA
- Author: Teika no FUJIWARA
- Genre: Poetry
In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (often known simply as the Hyakunin...
The Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington) a black-and-white print of a group of New England pilgrims on their way to...
Poems by Edward Thomas - Edward Thomas
Poems by Edward Thomas - Edward Thomas
- Author: Edward Thomas
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Born in 1878, Thomas published his first book when he was 18. Having married while still at university, he supported his family by writing articles and books, some in the form of what we might call slow travel writing, compiled on walks throughout...
Mastery - Sara Teasdale
Mastery - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Mastery by Sara Teasdale. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28th, 2013....
Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday - S.A.R.
Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday - S.A.R.
- Author: S.A.R.
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday by S.A.R., from The California Birthday Book (1909). This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 31st, 2010....
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry....
Sonnets and Songs - Helen Hay WHITNEY
Sonnets and Songs - Helen Hay WHITNEY
- Author: Helen Hay WHITNEY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of sonnets and songs by American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite, and philanthropist Helen Hay Whitney. - Summary by Carolin...
Solitude (Pope) - Alexander Pope
Solitude (Pope) - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Solitude by Alexander Pope. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 17th, 2008....
Picture-Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson
Picture-Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Picture-Books In Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. ------ Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for...
Verses for Children - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Verses for Children - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of verses by JHG Ewing. Ms. Ewing was best known as an author of short stories and fairy tales, but this is a volume of rhymes for children. - Summary by Carolin...
Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans - John Patterson MACLEAN
Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans - John Patterson MACLEAN
- Author: John Patterson MACLEAN
- Genre: Poetry
"Gifted with poesy as are the Highlanders, and given to the praise of their country and their leaders, it would be expected that many poems would still be extant concerning the MacLeans and their ancestral dominions," wrote John Patterson MacLean in...
Short Poetry Collection 045 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 045 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 045: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Short Poetry Collection 096 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 096 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of April and May 2011....
Short Poetry Collection 158 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 158 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016....
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 28th, 2009....
Short Poetry Collection 181 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 181 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2018. Translated poems: The Bride of Corinth, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Anster (1793-1867) The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Abu al-Ala Al-Ma'arri,...
Short Poetry Collection 015 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 015: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
In Memoriam A.H.H. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A.H.H. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry
In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poem over 17 years as a chronicle of his mourning process. The poem became a favorite of Queen Victoria when she...
The Despairing Lover - William WALSH
The Despairing Lover - William WALSH
- Author: William WALSH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, 2012. William Walsh was an English poet and critic. It is not as a poet, however, but as the friend and...
Short Poetry Collection 043 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 043 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 043: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Short Poetry Collection 052 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 052: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Song..While with fond rapture - Tobias Smollett
Song..While with fond rapture - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Song by Tobias Smollett. This is the weekly poem starting from October 16th, 2011. It's a lovely love song. ( Summary by Stav Nisser ) Taken from the Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and...
A Burnt Ship - John Donne
A Burnt Ship - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010....
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 03 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 03 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox readers present the third collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Containing 20 parts. - William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote...
Omar Resung - Charles G. BLANDEN
Omar Resung - Charles G. BLANDEN
- Author: Charles G. BLANDEN
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry
Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this convention; the French translation by J. B. Nicolas (1867), the English version by Justin Huntly McCarthy (1889)...
A Perfect Strain - Isabella CRAWFORD
A Perfect Strain - Isabella CRAWFORD
- Author: Isabella CRAWFORD
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Perfect Strain by Isabella Valancy Crawford, published in "The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford" in 1905. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 27th, 2008....
A Baby Running Barefoot - D. H. Lawrence
A Baby Running Barefoot - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Baby Running Barefoot by D. H. Lawrence. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 7th, 2008....
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Poetry
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who,...
Short Poetry Collection 161 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 161 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2016....
Ardours and Endurances - Robert NICHOLS
Ardours and Endurances - Robert NICHOLS
- Author: Robert NICHOLS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of war poetry by English poet and playwright Robert Nichols. To quote Wikipedia: "On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription...
The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poetry by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The collection includes several poems in the form of dialogues. - Summary by Carolin...
If - Rudyard Kipling
If - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
A Sad Case - Edgar FAWCETT
A Sad Case - Edgar FAWCETT
- Author: Edgar FAWCETT
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Sad Case by Edgar Fawcett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 6th, 2010....
Be Kind When You Can - Eliza COOK
Be Kind When You Can - Eliza COOK
- Author: Eliza COOK
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011. Eliza Cook was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark. She was the...
To Celia - Ben Jonson
To Celia - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Poetry / Elegies & Odes / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of To Celia by Ben Jonson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 6th, 2011. Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best...